Anyone obsessed with these tender morsels? This is my first year actually looking for them. Fun and rewarding if you can get past the bugs. Southern Wisconsin here and the season is almost over.

Haven't tried the little bug houses yet, but I never met a 'shroom I didn't like. Often wanted to forage for wild mushrooms. Most here in socal are inedible.

Deep fried!!  Had them every summer as a kid growing up in Michigan. Yum!!

You can eat them all.  Some taste good.  Some will get you high.  Some will get you sick.  Some will kill you.

I'm not brave.  I buy mine in the store.

A year or two back I had the pleasure of mushrooming in the French Pyrenees with my wife's uncle. Great going with someone who knows what they're looking at. Ceps and chanterelles fried in butter with a little garlic, delicieux!

ew......land herpes.

We found enough for a meal this year.  About 10 years ago my patch went nuts and we had about 3 shopping bags full.  Awesome.  Nice thing about Morels is that nothing else looks like them that is out at this time of year. 

My buddy used to pick fall wood mushrooms in Northern Wisconsin.  I picked with him once and he threw about half of what I picked out - I think I'll stay with Morels.

A game warden my buddy knew up there considered himself a mycological marvel and picked a bunch and had a feed with a number of his game warden friends.  They all ended up in the hospital for multiple weeks.  Bet he had a hard time living that one down.

Quote from: bobspapa on June 02, 2013, 09:02:22 AM
ew......land herpes.

There is a very interesting documentary on Mikhail Kalashnikov(Soviet firearms designer) and his retired life, living in an orchard. He now spends much of his free time harvesting 'shrooms and other wild edibles for the dinner table. Very cool docu, but I just can't remember the name of it. Worth a watch if you find it.

Quote from: howie on June 01, 2013, 10:33:42 PM
You can eat them all.  Some taste good.  Some will get you high.  Some will get you sick.  Some will kill you.

I'm not brave.  I buy mine in the store.

^^ This.

Quote from: brimo on June 01, 2013, 11:24:54 PM
A year or two back I had the pleasure of mushrooming in the French Pyrenees with my wife's uncle. Great going with someone who knows what they're looking at. Ceps and chanterelles fried in butter with a little garlic, delicieux!

That had to be an interesting experience.  Love learning new things in new places!

I typically fill up my freezer's top 2 shelves (4 to 6 average sized grocery bags full) every year.
This year, I haven't been out once yet. Mainly because the weather hasn't been really conducive with a big bloom.
Lots of rain, 1 day worth of warm sunshine then more rain usually equates to smaller blooms. Years like this, I like to just sit back and let the spores do their magical thing. I will probably pick some tomorrow afternoon on the way home from work...just enough for a couple of meals with the wife.

Hunt them in a privately owned heavily wooded draw between 2 cow pastures. It is a very old growth draw so lots of downed timber combined with the cow trails between the pastures combined with the exposure leads to fantastic harvest in most years.

My favorite way of preparing pheasant is in the slow cooker in a homemade morel based cream of mushroom soup.

They aren't super common where I live, but I seeded a spot in my horse pasture a bunch of years ago and they started growing - I guess it is quite rare that seeding is successful with morels.
Where my wife is from in SW Wisconsin, they are far more common.